Train cash-register.



-A. B. JOHNSTON.

TRAIN CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR- 20. 1916.

Patented June 19, 1917.

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TRAIN CASH-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Application filed April 20, 1916. Serial No. 92,422.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMEDEE B. JOHNSTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented a new and useful Train Cash-Register, of which the following is a specification, in such full and clear terms as will enable those skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates to a cash register for railway cars and its object is to simplify the construction of such registers as Well as to provide means whereby the conductor can indicate for his own convenience the persons who have paid their fare, thereby dispensing with the large number of hat checks ordinarily required in the handling of suburban or other trains where both money and tickets are used.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the drawing in which the same reference numeral is applied to the same portion throughout, but I am aware that there may be many modifications thereof,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the register,

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the register looking at right angles to Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the register operating slides,

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of the register operating slides showing the indicators therein,

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of one of the boxes in which the indicators are installed looking at right angles to Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view of a car having this register and operating mechanism installed therein, and

Fig. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view of a car having this register operating mechanism installed therein.-

The numeral 1 indicates'the car wall on which the register casing 2 is secured. The register casing has a revoluble indicator 3 operated by means of a handle 4 in its upper portion, said indicator showing the direction in which the car is traveling and being held in a given position by means of the spring 5. Below the indicator 3 is installed a suitable counter 6 having counter wheels 7, which counter is operated by means of the short crank 8, said crank having a depending link 9 extending down over the top of cams 10 and 11 connected with the ticket and cash counter operating shafts 12 and 13 respectively.

The ticket counter 14 is provided with the ordinary counter wheels 15, while the cash counter 16 is provided with the ordinary counter wheels 17. The ticket counter is operated from a lever 18 while the cash counter is operated by a lever 19. The levers 18 and 19 are normally held in the position shown in Fig. 2 by means of the springs 21 and 22 and the link 9 is held down by means of a spring 23. Links 24, 25 connect the arms 18 and 19 with the slotted operating links 26 and 27 respectively.

Extending down the middle of the car is a rod 28, said rod having arms 29 and 30 with pins extending through the slots 81, 32 whereby the ticket and cash counters can be operated independently of each other. In other words, an upward movement of the arm 30 will operate the cash counter, while it will not operate the ticket counter and inasmuch as the links 26, 27 are pivotally connected to the links 24, 25 they will allow the necessary side movements of the links 26, 27 to permit the arms 29, 30 to move in both directions.

The rod 28 is journaled in a bearing 35 adjacent the register and in depending arms 36, 37, and 38 which are supported from cross rods 39, 40, and 41 over each pair of seats, the car floor being indicated at 42, the car sides at 43 and 44, the roof at 45 and seats at 46, 47, there being one row of seats on each side of the car as is customary. The rods 39 to 41 inclusive, of which there is a rod for each pair of seats, each support four casings 48, 49, 50 and 51 within which are the operating slides for the rod 28, the object being to-provide each seated passenger with a marker, which marker also operates the register thereby enabling the conductor to designate the passenger who has paid his fare in the very act of ringing up his fare, saving him time, saving the expense of hat checks and insuring the ringing up of a fare each time a nickel is collected.

The casings carrying the operating mechanism are suspended from the cross rods by means of a suitable clamp 50 for each casing and each casing has a transverse shaft 51, which shaft carries a bell crank arm 52 having its middle portion rigidly connected with the shaft 51 and its ends connected with links 53, 54 which are in turn connected with arms 55, 56 on'the longitudinally extending shaft 28.

There are four-of the operating devices over two of the seats, one for each passenger and the four pairs of links are connected with the arms 55, 56.. Within the casing there are'th'ree slides 57, 58 and 59 movable in guide ways formed by the plates 60, 61, 62, 63, 64. The slides carrying pins 65, 6G and67 attheir upper ends, two of which pins are 1 adapted to engage thearm-68 hinged at 69 on the plate 70 which is secured to the shaft 51. The pin 67 is adapted to engagethe' plate 71 hinged at 7 2 to the-plate 70, a spring '73 being used-to hold the two hinged members 68 and 71in the position shownin Fig. i to allow the slides to return to their initial position with operating the register.

The'pins' 6f, 66 are so arranged that the pin 66 will throw the rods operating the cash register twice asfar as the pin' 65, thereby registering a count on the cash register for each nickel paid or two counts for each ten cent piece. The guide plates are supported on a plate 77 and cross bars 78, 79 prevent-the indicators from being pulled too far dow-n, the pins 65, 66 and 67 resting on said cross bars when the indicators have been pulled down.

Thebar 57 carries a ticketmarked five as indicated at-80, while 58 carries a ticket marked ten as indicated at 81 and" the bar 59 carries a card marked ticket as indicated at 82. At the bottom of the case each of the-slides 57 58 and '59 is provided with a pin as indicated at 83, 84 and 85- and said slides and pins mustbe shovedup' within the casing 48 when it-is desired to reset t'he'indicators, so that it is necessary to pro vide a hook of some kind-t0 pass through theholes in the bottomof the case to engage the-pins 83 to 85 inclusivewhen it is 'desired'to' ring up a fare or ticket.

lVhile this apparatus provides an indicator for eaclrseated traveler, it will be app'arentthat means must be provided whereby the register can'be operatedwith a hand leverwithout operating the indicators, and this lever is'seen at 90, there being such a number of them as is deemednecessary for the convenient operation of the cash-registel.

It will be observed that while only three of the slides- 57 to 59 inclusive have been shown that it will be clear thatafurther number of them may be used if it is desired and deemed necessary.

The operationof the device is as follows: Assuming the train to be more or less full of passengers the conductor will passdown the aisle and each time he is handed a fare he will pull downan indicator either 595, 10 or a ticket as the case maybe, wherechecks for designating'the passengers who have paid and when the train arrives at its destination the conductor w1ll pass through the car and reset all of the indicators so um: they will not show paid passengers, thereby saving a great deal of expense of printing, as well as a great deal of annoyance and time in the'handli'ng and taking up of'the'train checks, since with this invention the'train checks do not need to be restored to their initial position until after the passengers have left the car, a thing that cannot-"be-donewith the-ordinary hat checks which must be taken up before the passengersle'ave the car'.

1 Having'thus described my-invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-' ters Patentofthe United States, is as follows, express reservation being made of permissible modifications 1. Acash register for trains'comprising a register, a pl'urality of sets of-counter wheels therein, means to oper'ate one or'the other sets of counter wheels, anop'era'ting mechanism for said'register extending through the car in which the'register is'installed, and a plurality of combined indicator and operating slides adjacent the several seats in the car.

2. A cash register for trains'c'omprisi-ng a register having'i-ndicator wheels therein for tickets and-for cash, a rod extending longitudinally of the car in which the register is installed for operating the register, and an indicator slide adjacent each seat in the car for operating-'said'rod and for showing that the passenger has'paidhis fare.

'3j'A'cash register for trains comprising a register having a series-of counter wheels therein for tickets and for cash, means for making thescore of the cash counter wheels larger or smaller dependent upon a throw of the operating mechanism, a rod extendinglongitudinally of the car for operating the register mechanism, and a combined indicator and operating mechanism adjacent theseveral seats-of the car, said operating mechanism consisting ofa plurality of slides, a pivotally mounted bell crank lever and operating arms with'which said slides are adapted to contact 'to'move' the operating rod in one direction or the other asmay be required for the indication of tickets or cash.

4;. Apcash register for trains comprising a register having registering mechanism therein for cash and for tickets, a rod extending through the car, a combined operating mechanism and indicator adjacent the seats, saidoper'ating mechanism havinga bell crank lever, the ends'of which are connected by means of links to arms on said longitudinally extending shaft, slides carry- 5 having counter ing indicators, pins carried by said slides, and pivoted arms With which said arms contact for the operation of the cash register.

5. A train register comprising a register Wheels therein, and operating mechanism therefor extending through the car, said operating mechanism having indicators adjacent the several seats of the car for designating the paid.

set In 1916 persons Who have AMEDEE B. JOHNSTON.

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